I'm pursuing my graduate classes. As a result, expect diminished activity onwiki for a while. I'll still be available onDiscord and via email (and also onPhabricator andGerrit).
Please keep discussions aboutAFC drafts on-wiki on this talk page. Off-wiki attempts to contact me about drafts will be rejected and you will beblocked.
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the region ofSouth Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal), broadly construed, including but not limited to history, politics, ethnicity, and social groups
articles aboutliving or recently deceased people, and edits relating to the subject (living or recently deceased) of such biographical articles
Nice to see you around. I'm probably gonna take a break for a while (say a month) to focus on getting IRL life sorted before summer break.Sohom (talk)17:47, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Really doesn't matter. Article on Wikipedia need to be articles, not placeholders. Also this literally isn't a race.Sohom (talk)02:36, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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TheChart extension is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Editors can use this new extension to create interactive data visualizations like bar, line, area, and pie charts. Charts are designed to replace many of the uses of the legacyGraph extension.
Updates for editors
It is now easier to configure automatic citations for your wiki within the visual editor'scitation generator. Administrators can now set a default template by using the_default key in the localMediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json page (example diff). Setting this default will also help to future-proof your existing configurations whennew item types are added in the future. You can still set templates for individual item types as they will be preferred to the default template.[1]
Starting the week of June 2, bots logging in usingaction=login oraction=clientlogin will fail more often. This is because of stronger protections against suspicious logins. Bots usingbot passwords or using a loginless authentication method such asOAuth are not affected. If your bot is not using one of those, you should update it; usingaction=login without a bot password was deprecatedin 2016. For most bots, this only requires changing what password the bot uses.[2]
From this week, Wikimedia wikis will allow ES2017 features in JavaScript code for official code, gadgets, and user scripts. The most visible feature of ES2017 isasync/await syntax, allowing for easier-to-read code. Until this week, the platform only allowed up to ES2016, and a few months before that, up to ES2015.[3]
Scholarship applications to participate in theGLAM Wiki Conference 2025 are now open. The conference will take place from 30 October to 1 November, in Lisbon, Portugal. GLAM contributors who lack the means to support their participation canapply here. Scholarship applications close on June 7th.
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TheTrust and Safety Product team is finalizing work needed to roll outtemporary accounts on large Wikipedias later this month. The team has worked with stewards and other users with extended rights to predict and address many use cases that may arise on larger wikis, so that community members can continue to effectively moderate and patrol temporary accounts. This will be the second of three phases of deployment – the last one will take place in September at the earliest. For more information about the recent developments on the project,see this update. If you have any comments or questions, write on thetalk page, andjoin a CEE Catch Up this Tuesday.
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Thewatchlist expiry feature allows editors to watch pages for a limited period of time. After that period, the page is automatically removed from your watchlist. Starting this week, you can set a preference for the default period of time to watch pages. Thepreferences also allow you to set different default watch periods for editing existing pages, pages you create, and when using rollback.[4]
Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.
The appearance of talk pages will change at almost all Wikipedias (some have already received this design change,a few will get these changes later). You can read details about the changesonDiff. It is possible to opt out of these changesin user preferences ("Show discussion activity").[5][6]
Users with specific extended rights (including administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, and stewards) can now have IP addresses of all temporary accountsrevealed automatically during time-limited periods where they need to combat high-speed account-hopping vandalism. This feature was requested by stewards.[7]
This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout ofa new filter to Recent Changes, releasing it to several more Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Afrikaans Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to includethe rest of the Wikipedias in this project.[8]
AbuseFilter editors active on Meta-Wiki and large Wikipedias are kindly asked to update AbuseFilter to make it compatible with temporary accounts. A link to the instructions and the private lists of filters needing verification areavailable on Phabricator.
Lua modules now have access to the name of a page's associated thumbnail image, and onsome wikis to the WikiProject assessment information. This is possible using two new properties onmw.title objects, namedpageImage andpageAssessments.[9][10]
Done, this was just me trying to save/adopt a script of a locked sockpuppet cause I thought it was genuinely useful.Sohom (talk)11:27, 12 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The last time I checked it was aBERT into a classifier, tho @PPelberg (WMF) might find these links useful (especially considering they contain words that could point to promotional content).Sohom (talk)15:09, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed, but the idea was to train the model based on articles tagged with{{advert}} or{{promo}} tags IIRC. And if you have that dataset, might as well use it for more than one purpose.Polygnotus (talk)15:13, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think the announcement of the intent to collect the dataset was what triggered Tamzin's statement at the big AI RFC, (which explicitly calls for the destruction of datasets), I assume folks are waiting for a verdict there before proceeding/more widely publicizing the intent to collect datasets.Sohom (talk)15:22, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hm, maybe I misunderstood? Here someonesays they have peacock, fanpov, advert, autobiography(?) and weasel datasets. Dataset destruction sounds too much like book burning for my taste.Polygnotus (talk)15:25, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, it looks like they wrote:If the code exists somewhere out there, created by the WMF and fully available to anyone under an open-source license, it will be used against us. but the code is just some JavaScript that shows a popup and makes an API call; it is the model they worry about.Polygnotus (talk)15:33, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
All wikis should have the option to opt out of being used to develop an AI tool; to disable or decline to enable an AI tool; or, based on credible concerns of facilitating abuse, to compel the destruction of machine-learning data that has been gathered without local consensus. I think Tamzin's proposal is very clear and explicit about it's intentions here.
I think the datasets being referred to in the task are the initial "proof-of-concept" testing datasets. They sent out a call asking for folks to help out in labeling data shortly afterwards. (like so[11])Sohom (talk)16:25, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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You cannominate your favorite tools for the sixth edition of theCoolest Tool Award. Nominations are anonymous and will be open until June 25. You can re-use the survey to nominate multiple tools.
Foundation staff and technical volunteers use Wikimedia APIs to build the tools, applications, features, and integrations that enhance user experiences. Over the coming years, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will be investing in Wikimedia web (HTTP) APIs to better serve technical volunteer needs and protect Wikimedia infrastructure from potential abuse. You canread more about their plans to evolve the APIs in this Techblog post.
In other news, we have a new face on the coordinator team this year: last year's sixth-place finisher,Arconning (talk·contribs)! The coordinators would like to extend a sincere thanks toIxtal (talk·contribs), who is leaving the team, without whom the contest would not exist. After feedback from contestants last year, the scoring rules are undergoing some modifications; the new rules and a summary of the changes made will be posted to thecontest talk page shortly.
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This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout ofa new filter to Recent Changes, releasing it to the third and last batch of Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Latin Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to includethe rest of the Wikipedias in this project.[12]
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Last week,temporary accounts were rolled out on Czech, Korean, and Turkish Wikipedias. This and next week, deployments on larger Wikipedias will follow.Share your thoughts about the project.[13]
Later this week, the Editing team will releaseMulti Check to all Wikipedias (except English Wikipedia). This feature shows multipleReference checks within the editing experience. This encourages users to add citations when they add multiple new paragraphs to a Wikipedia article. This feature was previously available as an A/B test.The test shows that users who are shown multiple checks are 1.3 times more likely to add a reference to their edit, and their edit is less likely to be reverted (-34.7%).[14]
A few pages need to be renamed due to software updates and to match more recent Unicode standards. All of these changes are related to title-casing changes. Approximately 71 pages and 3 files will be renamed, across 15 wikis; the complete list is inthe task. The developers will rename these pages next week, and they will fix redirects and embedded file links a few minutes later via a system settings update.
View all 24 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused pages to scroll upwards when text near the top was selected.[15]
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Editors can now use Lua modules to filter and transform tabular data for use withExtension:Chart. This can be used for things like selecting a subset of rows or columns from the source data, converting between units, statistical processing, and many other useful transformations.Information on how to use transforms is available.[16]
Theall_links variable inAbuseFilter is now renamed tonew_links for consistency with other variables. Old usages will still continue to work.[17]
The latest quarterlyGrowth newsletter is available. It includes: the recent updates for the "Add a Link" Task, two new Newcomer Engagement Features, and updates to Community Configuration.
Can you back me uphere? Maybe reach out to them? The reaction "they don't respond enthusiastically so we'll test elsewhere" is understandable, but as the largest wiki this is the best test environment. And there is a careful balance, the WMF shouldn't just ignore all feedback, but they also shouldn't overreact to negative feedback. Thanks,Polygnotus (talk)06:25, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think the ship has sailed there, but I've put my agreement in the thread. I'll try to reach out internally as well and see what I can do (I happen to know Samwilson, one of the folks who worked on the project, they were also my first mentor when I got into MediaWiki development). Though, I think Community Tech as a whole cares a lot about community feedback and as such we did justWP:BITE them for incorrectly asking to test on enwiki so I don't have high hopes at the moment.Sohom (talk)12:02, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! I have emailed@Sannita (WMF):. I wish they would've contacted usbefore posting on WP:VPT. We could've told them that that was the wrong page to post on, and we could help them tweak their message a bit so that the reception would be uniformly positive.Polygnotus (talk)15:42, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Jack said we'll just have to be patient for 1 extra week. I was kinda worried the negative reception would lead to more serious consequences.
Weird that my "club of people who praise the WMF when they do something good and criticize the WMF when they do something bad" is such a tiny minority.Polygnotus (talk)19:25, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sammi Brie (submissions) with 1,055 round points, mostly from television station articles, including 27 good articles and 9good topic articles
Everyone who competed in round 3 will advance to round 4 unless they have withdrawn.This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far, while the full scores for round 3 can be seenhere. During this round, contestants have claimed 4 featured articles, 16featured lists, 1featured picture, 9 featured-topic articles, 149 good articles, 27 good-topic articles, and more than 90 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 18In the News articles, and they have conducted more than 200 reviews.
Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed in Round 4. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it onWikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome onWikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck!If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name fromWikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.MediaWiki message delivery (talk)14:49, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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AbuseFilter maintainers can nowmatch against IP reputation data inAbuseFilters. IP reputation data is information about the proxies and VPNs associated with the user's IP address. This data is not shown publicly and is not generated for actions performed by registered accounts.[18]
Hidden content that is withincollapsible parts of wikipages will now be revealed when someone searches the page using the web browser's "Find in page" function (Ctrl+F or ⌘F) in supporting browsers.[19][20]
A new feature, calledFavourite Templates, will be deployed later this week on all projects (except English Wikipedia, which will receive the feature next week), following a piloting phase on Polish and Arabic Wikipedia, and Italian and English Wikisource. The feature will provide a better way for new and experienced contributors to recall and discover templates via the template dialog, by allowing users to put templates on a special "favourite list". The feature works with both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. The feature is acommunity wishlist focus area.
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused some Notifications to be sent multiple times.[21]
See a "developing" or "least developed" country? Write about it to earn points!
Sohom Datta, for the second running of theDeveloping Countries WikiContest, it is nowopen for submissions. The coordinators have addressed some of the queries at the last contest and we are hopeful that it'll turn out great! If you haven't done so already, please review the following:
New to Wikipedia? Many experienced editors are part of this contest and willing to help; feel free to ask questions on thetalk page.
On2 July 2025,Did you know was updated with a fact from the articleLiquid Glass, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was... thatLiquid Glass was criticised for being too transparent? The nomination discussion and review may be seen atTemplate:Did you know nominations/Liquid Glass. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page(here's how,Liquid Glass), and the hook may be added tothe statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on theDid you know talk page.
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Temporary accounts have been rolled out on 18 large and medium-sized Wikipedias, including German, Japanese, French, and Chinese. Now, about 1/3 of all logged-out activity across wikis is coming from temporary accounts. Users involved in patrolling may be interested in two new documentation pages:Access to IP, explaining everything related to access to temporary account IP addresses, andRepository with a list of new gadgets and user scripts.
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Anyone can play an experimental new game,WikiRun, that lets you race through Wikipedia by clicking from one article to another, aiming to reach a target page in as few steps and in as little time as possible. The project's goal is to explore new ways of engaging readers.Try playing the game and let the team know what you thinkon the talk page.
Users of the Wikipedia Android app in some languages can now play the newtrivia game.Which came first? is a simple history game where you guess which of two events happened earlier on today's date. It was previously available as an A/B test. It is now available to all users in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, and Chinese. The goal of the feature is to help engage with new generations of readers.[22]
Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in some languages may see a new tabbed browsing feature that enables you to open multiple tabs while reading. This feature makes it easier to explore related topics and switch between articles. The A/B test is currently running in Arabic, English, and Japanese in selected regions. More details are available on theTabbed Browsing project page.
A new feature related toTemplate Recall and Discovery will be deployed later this week to all Wikimedia projects: atemplate category browser will be introduced to assist users in finding templates to put in their “favourite” list. The browser will allow users to browse a list of templates which have been organised into a given category tree. The feature has been requested by the communitythrough the Community Wishlist.
It is now possible to access watchlist preferences from the watchlist page. Also the redundant button to edit the watchlist has been removed.[24]
As part ofMediaWiki 1.44 there is now a unified built-in Notifications system that makes it easier for developers to send, manage, and customize notifications. Check out the updated documentation atManual:Notifications, information about migration inT388663 and details on deprecated hooks inT389624.
WikidataCon 2025, the conference dedicated to Wikidata is now open forsession proposals and forregistration. This year's event will be held online from October 31 – November 02 and will explore on the theme of "Connecting People through Linked Open Data".
The administrator elections process has officially started! Interested editors are encouraged to self-nominate or arrange to be nominated by reviewing the instructions atWikipedia:Administrator elections/July 2025/Candidates.
Here is the schedule:
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Also: an enhancement request: there is a jitter issue in the display while it is still working on the list of urls. Do you by any chance re-sort the list on the fly while it is still running? Because the display is a bit jittery, and prevented me from focusing on a single citation that interested me, from which I wanted to select and copy some info, but before I could complete the operation, the screen jittered, the citation jumped out of view to some nearby location beyond the window borders, and I had to search for it again, and try to select again, and...oops!—there it goes again. It would be nice to set a timer of maybe 30 seconds or whatever is needed to find/select/copy some info. (A checkbox option not to re-sort until done, or only at user-selected intervals, would be nice.) Thanks for a great tool!Mathglot (talk)04:04, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Additional info: I ran it again, and even when it reaches 136/137, it keeps swapping the urls around (at least the top ones, the ones I can see above the fold), with the top one rotating among these three titles:
Correspondance des deys d'Alger avec la cour de France 1579 — 1833
Rubrique : Articles N° 5
Traités de la France Avec les pays De l'Afrique du Nord Algérie, Tunisie, Tripolitaine, Maroc
For what it's worth, all three have the tag 'Detected issue: URL might be down', so I am guessing that maybe the tool keeps a list of urls that 404'd, and tries them again in a loop, is that right? If that is so, imho there is no need to place the one on top that is currently being regrabbed; what I would do, is just leave all the 404s in whatever order (alphabetical?) and maybe add an unobtrusive icon that would represent 'retrying this url' in front of the one you are retrying, without shifting the position of that one and all the others. Maybe something like🔁 – (U+1F501: Clockwise Rightwards Open Circle Arrow), or↻ (U+21BB:Clockwise Open Circle Arrow) which looks like a refresh icon, or an animated image that looks like that and gently pulses or rotates.
The 136/137 issue should be a worker that is erroring due to a DOI that returns a 404. The jitter problem is a VueJS problem which reorders elements on re-render, it might be a bit of a mess to fix, but I'll see what I can do.Sohom (talk)20:05, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This is not a good this for new user.how to get Extended confirmed user group tell me.you are indian people.Nation first.Olitun (talk)10:48, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Appealing to nationalistic sentiment will get you nowhere. I still stand by my actions to revokeWP:XC, you are clearly not a new user, having already submitted aWP:AELECT candidacy and a board election nomination that is completely AI generated and definitely partially fabricated. You may get back your extended confirmed user-right after making 500 substantial edits to the encyclopedia and engaging with our content properly instead of just doing edits to hat collect.Sohom (talk)12:51, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Care to disclose what that account is ? -- You've also claimed to be a Wikimedia Foundation employee until yesterday, I think I have the right to be more than a bit skeptical here.Sohom (talk)13:36, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Besides your ability to edit extended-confirmed pages, almost nothing is affected. Almost every page you previously edited is still accessible to you (yes you cannot submit aWP:AELECT nomination butthat is a feature not a bug) It is within my admin discretion to removeWP:XC and I do not intend to reverse the decision outside of community consensus, if you want to appeal it feel free to take me toWP:ANI to do so.Sohom (talk)14:05, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Description:* This article covers a newly established university with an infobox, logo, and cited sources. Requesting a quality assessment and suggestions for improvement.
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Featured templates, a new feature related toTemplate Recall and Discovery will be deployed this week to all Wikimedia projects: With this feature, editors will be able to quickly access a list of templates that are likely to be useful. These templates will be displayed in a list, under the "featured" tab of the template discovery interface. Administrators can define the list via the Community Configuration interface. The feature fulfills a request by the communitythrough the Community Wishlist.[25][26]
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, the request to add Malayalam fonts in theWikisource Book Export Tool was resolved and now, the rendering of Malayalam letters in exported Wikisource books are accurate.[27]
WikiIndaba 2025 scholarship application and program submission is open until 23:59 GMT on July 20. WikiIndaba is a regional conference for African Wikimedians both on the continent and in the diaspora to unite and grow together. Submityour scholarship application andprogram proposal now!
WikiCon Brasil 2025 will take place on July 19-20 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The Brazilian community members are encouraged to register and attend!
On July 23, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close again to public questions and discussion, and everyone will have a week to use theSecurePoll software to vote, which uses asecret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's totals during the election. You must beextended confirmed to vote.
Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last approximately four days, or perhaps a little longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on theresults page (you may want to watchlist this page) and transcluded to themain election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and must also have received a minimum of 20 support votes. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are nobureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").
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Thank you for improving article quality in July! - Three Ukrainian topics were on the main page today, at least at the beginning,RD andDYK, - see my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:16, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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The Translation Suggestions feature in theContent Translation tool now has another level of article filters added to the "... More" category. Translators who use the Suggestions feature can now select and receive article suggestions that are customized to geographical locations of their interest using the new "Regions" filter.[28]
Administrators can now limit "Add a Link" to newcomers. The"Add a Link" Structured Taskhelps new account holders start editing, but some communities have requested the ability to restrict it to its intended audience: newcomers. Administrators can configure this setting within theCommunity Configuration feature.
For AbuseFilter editors onsome wikis, it is now possible to filter edits based on the RevertRisk score of the edit being attempted. It is only populated if the action being evaluated is an edit. For more information, please see theORES/AbuseFilter variables documentation.
TheBeta Cluster wikis havebeen moved frombeta.wmflabs.org tobeta.wmcloud.org. Users may need to update URLs in any tools, or in their password managers. Any related issues can bereported in the task.
WikiCite 2025 will take place from 29–31 August, both online and in-person in Bern, Switzerland. The event's goals are to reconnect communities, institutions, and individuals working with open citations, bibliographic data, and the Wikidata/Wikibase ecosystem. Registration is open and the call for proposals will be announced soon.[29]
In the voting phase, the candidate subpages will close to public questions and discussion, and everyonewho qualifies to vote will have a week to use theSecurePoll software to vote, which uses asecret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's vote total during the election. Thesuffrage requirements are similar to those at RFA.
Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for approximately four days, perhaps longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on theresults page (this is a good page to watchlist), and transcluded to themain election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and a minimum of 20 support votes. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are nobureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").
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The Community Tech team will be focusing on wishes related to Watchlists and Recent Changes pages, over the next few months. They are looking for feedback. Pleaseread the latest update, and if you have ideas, pleasesubmit a wish on the topic.
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The Wikimedia Commons community has decided to blockcross-wiki uploads to Wikimedia Commons, for all users without autoconfirmed rights on that wiki, starting on August 16. This is because ofwidespread problems related to files that are uploaded by newcomers. Users who are affected by this will get an error message with a link to the less restrictive UploadWizard on Commons. Please help translating themessage or give feedback on the message text. Please also update your local help pages to explain this restriction.[30]
On wikis with temporary accounts enabled and Meta-Wiki, administrators may now set up a footer for the Special:Contributions pages of temporary accounts, similar to those which can be shown on IP and user-account pages. They may do it by creating the page namedMediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-temp.[31]
Wikimania 2025 will run from August 6–9. Theprogram is available for you to plan which sessions you want to attend. Most sessions will be live-streamed, with exceptions for those that show the "no camera" icon. If you are joining online to watch live-streams and use the interactive features, pleaseregister for a free virtual ticket. For example, you may be interested in technical sessions such as:
TheMediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Fall 2025 will be held 28–30 October 2025 in Hanover, Germany. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend.
The claim of significance was that it was one of the oldestGodot game engine game jams. Note thatWP:A7 does not require demonstrating notability, just a claim to significance.WP:A7 should be considered a mechanism for backdoor deletion.Sohom (talk)12:18, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This "claim to significance" is not even mentioned in the article. So there was no claim to significance (and even then, being "one of the oldest" is not a claim to significance anyway).Fram (talk)12:35, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I did a cursory Google search to understand the article subject, but that is because I happen to work on open-source software and programming and tend towards finding ways of documenting and (potentially) saving articles about cool programming projects/initiatives.Sohom (talk)12:58, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
So you ignored A7 and the actual article because you like the subject. That's awfully close to WP:INVOLVED. Perhaps stick to things you can neutrally assess and not ones you like.Fram (talk)13:10, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
WP:A7 requires significance, I went out of my way to look for significance. Yes, that is more work than whatWP:A7 requires, but I think it still adheres to the spirit of the law rather than the exact letter. I don't think my assessment after doing a cursory Google search was necessarily wrong. Also, I did not ignore deletion policy here and I for the most part have agreed with your overall assessment that the article should be deleted (and voted as such in the deletion discussion). I do not think I did anything wrong from the POV ofWP:INVOLVED. Just because I work in programming does not suddenly disqualify me from adminning on everything programming related. I generally defer to other folks (from a administration POV) in areas that I'm actually involved in IRL (particularly web security, privacy and web browsers in general etc).Sohom (talk)13:30, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
But you didn't find any significance anyway. And you claimed those things werein the article, which wasn't true. Being "one of the oldest" nor getting a nod of approval from someone from the actual engine (not an independent source, and not really a reliable one either) is indicating any significance. I don't get why you want to waste community time on this when you could have either deleted it or let it to someone less a priori enthusiastic to deal with it. I sure don't get why you would suggest merging something without any reliable independent source about it. We don't just include things because we like them or we think they are cool, and we shouldn't go around suggesting to newbies that this is an acceptable thing to do.Fram (talk)13:39, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
"Significance" is potential for notability. A project could have been notable because it is "one of the oldest". If this was any event but a game jam being "one of the oldest" would typically have encountered some coverage in tech RS (imo?). The way I interpreted that source in the moment was "oh wait Godot talks about this in their blog and I've heard about it, maybe this has some promise/potential in terms of notability". On a further evaluation, that intuition turn out to be wrong and I have since said that this should be deleted.
As I said in the AFD, what I meant when I said "merge" was to include a section about game jams in general on the page aboutGodot game engine and include a mention about the wild game jam (through the source I pointed to). I agree that "merge" was probably the wrong word to use in that context (in my defense, it was 8 o'clock in the morning and my first few admin actions in a hot second) but it was still a semi-accurate description of what I wanted the person to do. I did not see that they were a relatively new user and would have worded my response differently if I had realized that.
We don't just include things because we like them or we think they are cool, agreed! I have no intention of platforming non-notable stuff on Wikipedia even if they are stuff that I find cool.(I've written about notable stuff I find cool atCross-site leaks orSite isolation and I do intend to continue doing that though) In this case, I justed wanted to give a event the benefit of doubt/second chance in a area where I know mainstream coverage is kinda hard to come by. Hope that clears up my intentions here and where my head was at. I'll take care to be more through with my evaluations and more descriptive in my communications with newbies going forward.Sohom (talk)14:20, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
We're a month into the 2025Developing Countries WikiContest, with stiff competition at the top of the leaderboard already! Our current top five contestants are:
BeanieFan11 (submissions) – 168 points from a few GAs, a few DYKs, and a few ITNs on athletes from a variety of countries.
Looking for ways to climb up the leaderboard yourself? Help out your fellow participants by answering a fewreview requests, particularly the older entries. Several more nominations needing attention are listed ateligible reviews, and highlighed entries receive a 1.5× multiplier!
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Editors can now enable theUser Info card. This feature adds an icon next to usernames on history pages and similar user-contribution log pages. When you tap or click on the icon, it displays data related to that user account such as the number of edits, reverted edits, blocks, and more. It's part of a broader project to make it easier for moderators to evaluate account trustworthiness. The feature can be enabled inyour global preferences, and later this week it will be available in local preferences.[32]
Everybody is invited to share comments onCollaborative Contributions, a project recently launched by theConnection team. The project aims to create a new way to display the impact of collaborative editing activities (such as edit-a-thons, backlog drives, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. Post your comments on theproject talk page.[33]
Administrators can now define the default block duration for temporary accounts. To do that, they need to create a page namedMediaWiki:Ipb-default-expiry-temporary-account and use a value defined inMediaWiki:Ipboptions. This allows administrators to easily block temporary accounts for 90 days, which is functionally equivalent to an indefinite block. The advantage of this solution is that it does not clutter Special:BlockList.More documentation is available.[34]
Gadgets can now include.vue files. This makes it easier to develop modern user interfaces usingVue.js, in particular usingCodex, the official design system of Wikimedia.Codex icons can be loaded through the gadget definition.The documentation has examples. For user scripts that use Vue.js, anAPI module now exists to load Codex icons.[35][36]
Module developers can now use aLua interface to simplify the preparation of Lua modules for translation on Meta-Wiki. This improvement makes it easier for translators to find and edit module strings without dealing with raw Lua code. It helps prevent mistakes that could break the module during translation. Module developers and translators are invited towatch the demo video, read more abouttranslatable modules to understand how it works, refer to Meta-Wiki'sModule:User Wikimedia project for example usage, andshare their feedback on how well it addresses the challenges in their workflow. The interface still has some performance issues, so it should not be used in widely used modules yet.[37]
Developers of external tools that connect to Wikimedia pages must set a user-agent that complies withthe user-agent policy. This policy will start to be more strongly enforced in August because of external crawlers that areoverusing Wikimedia's resources. Tools that are hosted on Wikimedia's Toolforge or Cloud VPS will not be affected by this for now, but should still set a user-agent.More technical details are available, and related questions are welcome in that task.
Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to some smaller Wikipedias over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyages and Wiktionaries to Parsoid Read Views. For more information, see theParsoid/Parser Unification project page.[38]
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Followinga request for comment, there isa new policy outlining the granting of permissions to view the IP addresses oftemporary accounts. Temporary account deployment on the English Wikipedia is currently scheduled for September 2025, and editors canrequest access to the permission ahead of time. Admins are encouraged to keep an eye on the request page; there will likely be a flood of editors requesting the permission when they realize they can no longer see IP addresses.
South Asia (WP:CT/SA) is designated acontentious topic. The topic area is specifically defined asAll pages related to the region ofSouth Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal), broadly construed, including but not limited to history, politics, ethnicity, and social groups.
Wikimania 2025 is happening inNairobi,Kenya, and online from August 6 to August 9. This year marks 20 years ofWikimania. Interested users can join the online event. Registration for the virtual event is free and will remain open throughout Wikimania. You canregister here now.
@AndreJustAndre There istoolforge:wikinav which gives you click-stream data, but it looks like it is stuck on June 2025 data. That being said, we have anonymized click stream data across a month at[39] so you could possibly write a script to check the anonymized referrer data across July to August. That being said, I don't think it can be used to find the exact referrers used in the spike, since the data is anonymized and aggregated over a month and we don't have any (non-NDA) tools that provides that data at the granularity or a day (or even a couple of days) at the moment.Sohom (talk)20:42, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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The WikiEditor toolbar now includesits keyboard shortcuts in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature.[40]
The search bar on the Minerva skin (mobile) has been updated to use the same type-ahead search component that is used on the Vector 2022 skin. There are no changes in search functionality but there are minor visual changes. Specifically, the close-search button has been changed from an "X" to a back arrow. This helps to distinguish it from the other "X" button that is used to clear any text.[41]
Editors on some wikis will see a new toggle for "Group results by page" on watchlist, related changes, and recent changes pages. This isan A/B experiment that is planned to start on August 11, and will run for 3–6 weeks on the Bengali, Chinese, Czech, French, Greek, Portuguese, and Urdu Wikipedias. The experiment will examine how making this feature more discoverable might affect editors' ability to find the edits they are looking for.[42]
The multiwiki datasets ofUnicode data have been moved toCategory:Unicode Module Datasets on Wikimedia Commons, to follow the idea of "One common data source, multiple local wikis". Most wikis have been updated to use the Commons version. You can ask questions atthe talkpage.[43]
Lua code can add warnings when something is wrong, by using themw.addWarning() function. It is now possible to add more than one warning, instead of new warnings replacing old ones. If you maintain a Lua module that used warnings, you should check it still works as expected.[44]
Hi, has something recently changed with the configuration of SodiumBot? My watchlist is set to exclude bot edits, but this morning edits by SodiumBot (FRS notifications) are displaying. Thanks.Schazjmd(talk)14:05, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Later this week, people who are logged-in and have the "Discussion tools"Beta Feature enabled will gain the ability to "Thank" individual comments directly from talk pages, rather than needing to navigate to page history.Learn more about this feature.[45]
An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki on 12 August and on English Wikipedia 14 August for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September.[46]
An A/A test to measure the baseline for reader retention was launched 12 August usingExperimentation Lab. This measures the percentage of users who revisit a wiki after their initial visit over a 14-day period. No visual changes are expected. The experiment will run through 31 August.[47]
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Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used byTemplateStyles was updated. For example:width: fit-content;ruby-align; relative units such aslh; and custom strings inlist-style-type. These improvements are aCommunity Wishlist wish.[53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62]
On large wikis, the default time period to display edits from, within the Special:RecentChanges page, has been changed from 7 days to 1 day. This is part of a performance improvement project. This should have no user-facing impact due to the quantity of edits on these wikis.[63]
Wikimedia Commons videos were not shown in the Videos tab in Google Search. The problem was investigated and reported to Google who have now fixed the issue.[65][66]
Two fields of therecentchanges database table are being removed.rc_new andrc_type are being removed in favor ofrc_source. Queries to these older fields will start to fail starting this week and developers should userc_source instead. These older fields were deprecated over 10 years ago and should not be in use. This is part of work to improve the performance and stability of queries to the recentchanges table.[68]
The latest quarterlyLanguage and Internationalization Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: support for new languages in MediaWiki and translatewiki; the start of the Language Onboarding and Development project to help support the growth of new and small wikis; updates on research projects; and more.
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The nextLanguage Community Meeting is happening soon, August 29th at15:00 UTC. This week's meeting will cover: the Avro keyboard developers from Wikimedia Bangladesh, who were recently awarded a national award for their contributions to this keyboard; and other topics.
Lemme steal your brain for a little bit. There is obviously a reason why this hasn't been implemented (right? it is such an obvious feature that its omission means they don't want stalkers, right?). Do you think the world will explode if I release it? Is there something similar out there? There must be, right? But I don't see anything onWikipedia:User_scripts/List#Watchlist_and_recent_changes.
So basically it takes the most recent diffid, stores it in localStorage, compares it. I have something similar in Java which can send me push notifications. It is probably possible to send a push notification from a Tampermonkey script but I was too lazy to google it.Polygnotus (talk)06:44, 29 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Polygnotus, There isn't anything similar out there to best of my knowledge. I don't think the world would explode, but you might get folks who would ask you to gate it behind specific permissions (admin for example) or in a worst case scenario MFD it if there is evidence of clear abuse using the script. Things won't explode, but they might get messy fast and the WMF does not want to get into the mess.Sohom (talk)13:32, 29 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
How do I gate a javascript behind specific permissions? Is there a snippet somewhere I can steal? Also, wouldn't it be real easy to strip out whatever code I put in to restrict it? mw.config.get('wgUserGroups').includes('sysop'); is pretty unsophisticated and easy to remove.Polygnotus (talk)13:34, 29 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Polygnotus Gate it behind a if statement like so,
if(mw.config.get('wgUserGroups').indexOf('sysop')!==-1){// do something}else{// you are not a admin, don't do the admin-only thing}
@Polygnotus Yes, it is easy to remove, but so will almost everything else (outside of obfuscating the JS code). The real reason folks won't be removing the check is peer pressure/fear of being blocked (case to the point, the AWB check is trivial to bypass if you know a bit of game hacking, but the reason folks don't do it is because they would be blocked if they did.Sohom (talk)14:29, 29 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Well it is pretty difficult to detect if someone is running a Tampermonkey script, unless someone spends their finite life looking at API logs; a fate worse than hell. For some reason I can't find the wgUserGroup 'hasClue'.
Also getting AWB permission is pretty damn easy, I think that is also a deterrent.
One more stupid question. Can we run User:Yapperbot/Pruner on all those WikiProjects with memberlists that are usually years out of date? Based on my calculationsat least 50% of people listed as members of a WikiProject are inactive. And that makes those Wikiproject pages far less useful because you can't even find who to talk to on, for example, Wikiproject:Windmills in Belarus. The only downside is that some WikiProjects have an "inactive" users section; I am happy to remove all those manually (they add nothing of value) or add a html comment so the bot knows to skip em and have the bot deal with the rest. Ideally they would be sorted based on usercount, and even more ideally use a weighted-sort based on usercount in the specific topic (quarry:history/94218/1013390/982681). But pruning all the dead wood is a great step in the right direction. I can do it too, withUser:Polygnotus/Scripts/FilterInactiveOrBlocked.js but it would be nicer to have a bot do it regularly. I've never tried Go. In these participants sections they sometimes use ordered lists, sometimes they use unordered lists, sometimes they add 1 sentence descriptions after their username, so the bot needs some minor tweaks. Thanks,Polygnotus (talk)06:45, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The fourth round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 29 August. The penultimate round saw three contestants score more than 800 points:
BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,175 round points, mainly from sports-related articles, including 17 good articles, 27 did you know articles, and 9in the news articles
AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) with 854 round points, mostly from a high-scoring featured article on the Indian leaderRani of Jhansi and two good articles, in addition to 13 featured and good article reviews
Everyone who competed in Round 4 will advance to Round 5 unless they have withdrawn.This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far, while the full scores for Round 4 can be seenhere. During this round, contestants have claimed 9 featured articles, 12featured lists, 98 good articles, 9good topic articles, more than 150 reviews, nearly 100 did you know articles, and 18 in the news articles.
In advance of the fifth and final round, the judges would like to thank every contestant for their hard work. As a reminder, any content promoted after 29 August but before the start of Round 5 can be claimed in Round 5. In addition, note that Round 5 will end on 31 October at 23:59 UTC. Awards at the end of Round 5 will be distributed based on who has the most tournament points over all five rounds, and special awards will be distributed based on high performance in particular areas of content creation (e.g., most featured articles in a single round).
Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it onWikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome onWikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges –Cwmhiraeth (talk·contribs),Epicgenius (talk·contribs),Frostly (talk·contribs),Guerillero (talk·contribs) andLee Vilenski (talk·contribs) – are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck!
Hello Sohom Datta, Good day to you. I wish to refer to my request for Autopatrolled rights inMarch 2025 and to the comments you made when declining same. Although I have not created an article and developed it to GA or B-class, I have made significant contributions towards improving the articles onTrinity College, Kandy ([69]) andBradby Shield Encounter ([70]) articles. I would be grateful if you could kindly advise me whether these efforts address the concerns raised by you. Please be assured that I shall not regard any advice you provide as implicit approval. Best regards.QEnigma论07:57, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@QEnigma While I do think the work you've done is admirable I think what I had in mind was a stress on the "created" part of the creation part of a article. That being said, you do have permanent NPR, and given that I'd suggest reapplying for the right, since you seem to be overall closer than you were last time.Sohom (talk)01:06, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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The Editing team wants to compile a list of templates, jargon terms, and policies used in edit summaries when a copyright violation is removed. This will help them identify the number of edits reverted due to copyright issues. We invite community members from the following Wikis to list these terms inT402601, or to share their list withTrizek_(WMF): Arabic Wikipedia, Czech Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, Spanish Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia. This project is open until September 9th 2025.
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TheCampaignEvents extension has been enabled for all Wikisources. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. The extension has three features:Event Registration,Collaboration List, andInvitation List. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the Deployment information page.[71]
The lists in the footer of the editing interface, such as "Templates used on this page," will now be organized into columns when there is enough space. This enhancement minimizes scrolling when editing lengthy articles on Wikipedia.[72]
On September 3rd, 2025 we will increase the sampling percentages of ourgroup by toggle experiment of theSpecial:RecentChanges,Special:Watchlist, andSpecial:RelatedChanges pages on the Chinese, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias to 100 percent, allowing more editors to be part of this experiment. This adjustment is intended to ensure we have sufficient data to make informed decisions when evaluating the experiment results.[73][74]
Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading on English Wikipedia beginning the week of September 22. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. All non-English wikis received this change in June and July. The goal is to make it easier for users to find articles.Learn more.
Wikifunctions now has a new capability called "lightweight enumeration types", an enumeration type is simply a fixed set of values that's in the type's definition. This capability makes it quick and easy to define such a type, and allows for the reuse of values that are already present in Wikidata. Here isa newsletter to learn more.
The latestReaders Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: the formation of two new teams — Reader Growth and Reader Experience; insights into declining pageviews and account creations; highlights from the Wikimania Nairobi panel on improving the reading experience; upcoming experiments to engage new and existing readers; and more.
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You're telling meSohom Datta(talk·contribs·count·logs) hasn't been Editor of the Week yet?! Sohom seemingly does it all. As a developer, he's worked on all kinds of handy things: thePageTriage extension here on the English Wikipedia,ProofreadPage — the software that makesWikisource tick — and many otherindispensable (ha!) tools. Since last year, he's been a member of theProduct and Technology Advisory Council, which collaborates with the Wikimedia Foundation with the aim of improving software quality across the projects. Relatedly, I've been increasingly seeing him in heated discussions employing his technical expertise and voice of reason to turn dumpster fires into productive conversations. However, he's also a seasoned content writer; he's created several articles on technical subjects likeSite isolation andCookie stuffing, and it was my pleasure to collaborate with him onCross-site leaks andFrutiger Aero. We need more editors like Sohom, and I hope you'll join me in expressing our appreciation of his work. This nomination was seconded byDreamRimmer,Bunnypranav,Saltymagnolia,QuicoleJR,Vacant0,HouseBlaster andVanderwaalforces
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The Editing team is working on a new check:Paste check. This check informs newcomers who paste text into Wikipedia that the content might not be accepted. This check is an effort to increase the likelihood that the new content people are adding to Wikipedia is aligned with the Movement's commitment to offering information under a free content license. This check will soon be tested at a few wikis. If your community is interested in this test, pleasetell us in this task, orcontact the team.
When browsing a wiki (likeen.wikipedia.org), the software responds in one of two ways: a desktop page, or a redirect to a mobile version on an "m" domain (likeen.m.wikipedia.org). Over the next three weeks, MediaWiki will start displaying the mobile version to mobile devices directly on the standard domain, without this redirect. This change does not affect existing m-dot URLs, or the "Desktop view" opt-out.Learn more.[76]
When an edit changes the categories of a page, the changes to the category membership counts are now happening asynchronously. This improves the speed of saving edits, especially when moving many pages to or from the same category, and reduces the risk of site outages, but it means that the counts can show outdated information for a few minutes.[77]
Edits on Wikidata to qualifiers (properties and values) and references (properties and values) in a Wikidata item statement will now not add entries to the RecentChanges or Watchlist pages on all other Wikis. This is a temporary change to improve performance while other solutions are created. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged.Learn more.[78][79]
Japanese-language wikis have had a major upgrade to the way that search works. The new search should generally give more accurate and more relevant search results.[80]
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Hey Sohom so we have 1) add DOMPurify to address XML issues[81] 2) fixed the variable shapes of the play button on different machines 3) when visualizations are played they no longer jump to the top of the page and they properly return to the section the user was at when closed. AdditionallyUser:Ragesoss has agreed to keep stuff uptodate on EN WP as we continue to make improvements. Let me know if there are other requirements you see as critical before reopening discussion. BestDoc James (talk ·contribs ·email)06:32, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Removed, I have some additional (non-security) concerns surrounding UI (I consider it a dead-end UI that will lead folks away from the encyclopedic content into OWID data) (Note, that it does not apply to commons since we are effectively just making commons content more engaging) but those are my personal opinion and it looks like that is in the minority here, per that I have vacated by edit removing the default flag since the major security issues have been addressed.Sohom (talk)22:12, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Howdy. I see you are one of those who has previously grantedAWB permission. I’ve been waiting a few days and haven’t gotten any feedback. Wondering if you might have a moment to take a look at my request. Sorry for being impatient. Just have a number of tasks I’m looking to perform. Thanks in advance. —Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing)17:49, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@EEng That link was a different issue that has since been fixed. I'll check if bare URLs get caught, but in general, properly formatted citations should not trigger the filter.Sohom (talk)20:18, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I think the example I linked was triggered by a bare URL (or maybe there was plain text of the name in there as well, and that was the true trigger). Since bare URLs are common in talk-page discussions, I wanted to raise the point.EEng20:22, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That ping didn't work for me. You may want to look into that. There's another FP reported at EFPR. It'll take me some time to get my head around the logic and regex, but I wonder if we're counting properly? Over to you Sohom. --zzuuzz(talk)20:52, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, but MediaWiki decided that you were only changing the time (you need to add a newline and add a signature for MediaWiki to consider it "ping eligible")Sohom (talk)22:52, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@EEng and @Zzuuzz (and @Green Montanan) I think I've fixed the issues (required some nasty regex hacks) to make sure we caught everything properly (yes it was a counting problem) (also thanks to @Chaotic Enby for the help they gave offwiki with sanity checking some of the regexes)Sohom (talk)21:51, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I did not test to see whether the filter would allow the name to be within the title, but that's less critical, since the title can be "adjusted" to conform to the current consensus.Green Montanan (talk)22:02, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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References lists that are made using the<references/>tag will now automatically display with columns in Vector 2022 when readers are using its 'standard' settings for text-size and page-width.[85]
Starting in the week of October 6, onsmall wikis andmedium wikis that have theCampaignEvents extension enabled, all autoconfirmed users will be able to useEvent Registration as an organizer. No changes will be made forlarge wikis unless requested in Phabricator. This change is being made to make it easier for more people to use Event Registration, especially on wikis that are less likely to have policies related to the Event Organizer right.Learn more.
Users that search using regular expressions (regex) can now use additional features including:
for theintitle: keyword:metacharacters for start-of-line (^) and end-of-line ($) anchors[86]
for bothintitle: andinsource: keywords: shorthandcharacter classes for digits (\d), whitespace (\s), and word characters (\w); andescape codes for line feed (\r), newline (\n), tab (\t), and unicode (e.g.\uHHHH).[87]
When you search for text that looks like an IP, the system will now show search results. It used to take you to the contributions for that IP instead of showing search results.[88]
View all 24 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that affected users who used the page-tabs to switch from wikitext editing of a section into the visualeditor.[89]
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The MediaWiki Interfaces team is redesigning the Wikimedia REST API Sandbox with Codex. If you have feedback on improvements for the API documentation or what makes developer experiences smooth (or frustrating), you’re invited tojoin an upcoming discovery interview, orleave feedback onwiki.Learn more.
Edits to Wikidata aliases (an alternative name for an item or a property) will now be shown in RecentChanges and Watchlist entries on other wikis less often, reducing unnecessary notifications. This will reduce the overall quantity of 'noisy' entries. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged.Learn more.[90]
The newUnicode 17.0 version has been released. Thedatasets on Commons for theModule:Unicode data have been updated. Wikipedias that do not use the Commons datasets should either update their own data or switch to the Commons datasets.
Users of theWikimedia Enterprise Structured Contents endpoints can now accessParsed Tables. The new Parsed Tables feature extracts and represents Wikipedia tables in structured JSON. This improves machine accessibility as part of theStructured Contents initiative. Structured Contents output is freely available through theOn-demand API, or through Wikimedia Cloud Services.
Adataset of English Wikipedia biographical information fromWikimedia Enterprise has been published on Kaggle, for evaluation and research. This provides structured data from more than 1.5 million biographies, including birth and death dates, education, affiliations, careers, awards, and more (from a June 2024 snapshot).
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On September 24th at 15:00 UTC, all Wikimedia sites users will experience a brief read-only period due to a scheduleddatacenter server switchover. The Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team will redirect all traffic from one primary server to its backup. You can listen to the switchover using the"Listen to Wikipedia" tool, where you will hear edits stop for a few minutes during the read-only phase, then resume. This twice-yearly datacenter server switchover ensures reliability by testing the backup datacenter, so that our sites can stay online even if the primary datacenter fails. You canread more about the process on the Diff blog.
Updates for editors
Editors of60 more Wiktionaries will soon be able to callfunctions from Wikifunctions and integrate them into their pages. A function takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, like adding numbers, converting miles to meters, calculating elapsed time, or declining a word into a case. They will join the other65 Wiktionary language editions, which already have access to embedded Wikifunctions calls. Later this year, plans are in place to expand to more Wiktionaries and the Incubator.
A newparser function has been added:{{#contentmodel}}. Template editors and admins can use it to get the localized or canonical name of thecontent model of a specific page. The function makes it easier to create and edit system messages, such asMediaWiki:editinginterface, even when you switch types of pages, like wiki, JavaScript, CSS or JSON page.[91]
Adding or editing aDISPLAYTITLE for an article using VisualEditor will no longer be broken. Editors who use VisualEditor mode to modify the{{DISPLAYTITLE}} would no longer have the literal text "DISPLAYTITLE" or its localized variant added to their articles. A list of pages that may have been affected and might need cleanup is documented inthis ticket.
Beta users of the Wikipedia Android app can now try the redesignedActivity tab, which replaces the Edits tab. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.
Wikifunctions users can now import many essential facts involvinggeo-coordinates,quantities andtime values from Wikidata. This is made possible by the creation of Wikifunctions types for these values, which makes them available for use by functions in Wikifunctions. Learn more about how this works inthis video and Wikifunctions'August 1 newsletter (for quantities) andAugust 22 newsletter (for geo-coordinates).
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A major software upgrade has been made toPhabricator. The update introduces performance improvements, a refreshed search interface, enhancements to Maniphest task search, updates to user profile pages and project workboards, new Herald automation features, as well as general text input, mobile experience improvements and more.[92]
Updates for editors
The Community Tech team will release the new Community Wishlist extension on October 1, that will improve the way wishes will be submitted. The new extension will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances. The old system will be retired. There will be a brief period of downtime while the extension is deployed and wishes are migrated to the new system. You can read more about thisin the latest update or you can consult thecurrent documentation on MediaWiki.
As announcedon Diff blog, the production trial of thehCaptcha service for bot detection has begun. The trial is currently using hCaptcha to protect account creation on Chinese, Persian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Turkish Wikipedias, where it will replace our existingCAPTCHA (FancyCaptcha). The goal with the trial is to better block bots while also improving usability and accessibility for users who encounter CAPTCHA challenges.
TheCampaignEvents extension has beendeployed to Wikimedia Commons. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. On Commons, anyone who is a registered user can use it as an event participant. To use it as an organizer, someone needs to have theevent organizer right.
On wikis using theMentorship system, communities can now opt experienced editors out of Mentorship throughSpecial:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship. Within this setting, communities may define thresholds, based on edit count and account age, to decide when an editor is considered experienced enough to no longer receive Mentorship.[93]
The Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers:Tone check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Tone language model for the following languages: Arabic, Czech, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Farsi, Italian, Norwegian, Romanian and Latvian. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model areinvited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on October 3, which will be the start date of the test.
The rollout ofmultiblocks had the side effect that non-active block logs may have been shown on Special:Contributions and on blocked users' user and user_talk pages. This issue will be fully resolved in a few days. As part of the fix,messages prefixed withsp-contributions-blocked-notice will be removed and replaced withthose prefixed withblocked-notice-logextract in a few weeks. Please help translate the new messages and update any local overrides if needed.
There was a bug with links added using visual editor if they included characters such as[ ] | after the fragment identifier (#). They were not encoded properly creating an incorrect link. This has been fixed.[94]
One new wiki has been created: a Wikiquote inMalay (q:ms:)[95]
View all 21 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, theUser Info Card now displays currently active global lock/blocks.[96]
Updates for technical contributors
Later this week, editors using Lua modules will be able to use themw.title.newBatch function to look up the existence of up to 25 pages at once, in a way that only increases theexpensive function count once.
A newUnsupported Tools Working Group has been formed as part of ongoing efforts to collectively determine technical work priorities, similar to theProduct & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). The working group will help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. For the first cycle, the group will be prioritizing an unsupported Wikimedia Commons tool.
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Paste Check is a new Edit Check feature to help avoid and fight copyright violations. When editors paste text into an article, Paste Check prompts them to confirm the origin and licensing of the content. Starting Wednesday, 8 October,22 wikis will test Paste Check. Paste Check will help new volunteers understand and follow the policies and guidelines necessary to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia projects.
Updates for editors
Mobile devices will receive mobile articles directly on the standard domain (likeen.wikipedia.org), instead of via a redirect to an "m" domain (likeen.m.wikipedia.org). This change improves performance. This week it will be enabled on Wikipedias. The existing mobile URLs and the "Desktop view" opt-out remain available.Learn more.[97]
Newdate filters,creationdate: andlasteditdate:, are now available in the wiki search engine. This allows users to filter search results by a page's first or last revision date. The filters support comparison operators (e.g.>2024) and relative dates (e.g.today-1d), making it easier to find recently updated content or pages within specific age ranges.[98]
Wikifunctions now supports rich text in embedded calls across the 150 wikis where it's enabled. To showcase this, the team created aLatin declination table that Wiktionary editors can use to automatically generate noun forms, producing clear, formatted results — see anexample output. If you need any help or have any feedback, pleasecontact the Wikifunctions Team.[99]
An edit link will now appear inside the categories box on article pages for logged in users, which will directly launch the VisualEditor category dialog.[100]
View all 34 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, there was a problem downloading pdf files last week and that has been resolved.[101]
Updates for technical contributors
The fieldrev_sha1 in the revision database table is being removed in favor ofcontent_sha1 in the content database table. Seethe announcement for more information.
TheReader Experience team will roll outDark Mode user interface on all Wikimedia sites on October 29, 2025. All anonymous users of Wikimedia sites will have the option to activate a color scheme that features light-colored text on a dark background. This is designed to provide a more comfortable reading experience, especially in low-light situations. Template authors and technical contributors are encouraged tolearn how to make pages ready for Dark mode and address any compatibility issues found in templates in their wiki before the enablement. Please contact the Web team for questions or any support onthis talk page before the enablement.[102]
Starting on Monday, October 6, API endpoints under therest.php path will be rerouted through a new internal API Gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to theService Ops team board.[103]
Aftera motion, arbitration enforcement page protections no longer need to be logged in the AELOG. A bot now automatically posts protections atWP:AELOG/P. To facilitate this bot, protection summaries must include a link to the relevant CT page (e.g.[[WP:CT/BLP]]), and you will receive talk page reminders if you forget to specify the contentious topic but otherwise indicate it is an AE action.
@Doc James I assume it is the same codebase (with improvements) but on a different server? Cool to see some work being done on this! (On the Unsupported Tools Working Group side of things I think we're looking at funding work on Video2Commons since y'all are doing a significant chunk of the work on CropTool and we didn't want to step on your toes!)Sohom (talk)16:30, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yup same codebase with improvements as the current maintainer was not very responsive to our patches.
Hello. I suppose you are an admin on this site. Can you please look into the edit disputes on the articleList of current Indian governors. An user has been continuously changing the appropriate portraits used (cropped versions) and replacing them with random pictures just to differentiate between the same individuals holding two separate offices. I do not think it is constructive as well it just breaks the format of the table. Kindly look into it.Oritsu.me (talk)03:36, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Last week, improvements to account security and two-factor authentication (2FA) features were enabled across all wikis. These changes include user interface improvements forSpecial:AccountSecurity, the support of multiple 2FA methods via authenticator apps and portable security keys (previously users could only enable one method), and a new Recovery Codes module which facilitates fewer account lockouts due to lost two-factor apps and devices. As part of theAccount Security project, work is continuing through the rest of 2025 on further user experience improvements, and support for passkeys as an alternate second factor.
Updates for editors
Another part of the Account security project is making 2FA generally available to all users. Along with editors with advanced privileges, such as administrators and bureaucrats, 40% of editors now have access to 2FA. You can check if you have access atSpecial:AccountSecurity. Instructions for activation are on the linked page. The plan is to continue increasing availability if it is determined that the user support capabilities are able to support global usage.[104]
This week, users at wikis where talk pageUsability Improvements are already available by default (everywhereexcept the 12 wikis listed inT379264) will gain the ability to Thank a comment directly from the talk page it appears on. Before this change, Thanking could only be done by visiting the revision history of the talk page. You canlearn more about this change.[105]
Users who have notverified their email address will soon be receiving monthly Notification reminders to do so. This is because users who have verified their email can more easily recover their account. These reminders will not be sent if the user is inactive or removes the unverified email from their account.[106][107]
View all 21 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, a fix was made for an occasional error with saving translated paragraphs in the Content Translation tool, and the related error messages are now easier to see.[108]
Updates for technical contributors
The Unsupported Tools Working Group has chosenVideo2Commons as the first tool for its pilot cycle. The group will explore ways to improve and sustain the tool over the coming months.Learn more on Meta.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the{{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in youredit summary or onthe article's talk page.
Thanks for uploadingFile:Malvertisement on a mobile phone.jpg. I noticed that this file is being used under a claim ofnon-free use. However, I think that the way it is being used fails thefirst non-free content criterion. This criterion states that files used under claims of non-free use may haveno free equivalent; in other words, if the file could be adequately covered by a freely-licensed file or by text alone, then it may not be used on Wikipedia. If you believe this file is not replaceable, please:
If you have uploaded other non-free media, consider checking that you have specified how these media fully satisfy our non-free content criteria. You can find a list of description pages you have edited by clicking onthis link. Note that even if you follow steps 1 and 2 above, non-free media which could be replaced by freely licensed alternatives will be deleted 2 days after this notification, per thenon-free content policy. If you have any questions, please ask them at theMedia copyright questions page. Thank you.Stifle (talk)07:50, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Two weeks ago, the 2025Developing Countries WikiContest came to a close! After three months of stiff competition at the top of the leaderboard, we have our winners.vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions), continuing his work on coveringabortion in Africa, comes in third with 692 points.simongraham (submissions) comes in second with 763 points, largely from a slew of good articles aboutjumping spiders. And returning to the podium for the second year in a row,BeanieFan11 (submissions) takes the Gold Belt Buckle with a mind-boggling 946 points from his series of articles on sportpersons. Congratulations to our winners!
Amazingly, the award for the most countries covered goes to bothBeanieFan11 (submissions) andsimongraham (submissions), who each submitted articles under 30 flags!BeanieFan11 (submissions) also wins for writing the most quality articles (16 good articles). For submitting 16 articles related to El Salvador,PizzaKing13 (submissions) wins the award for most submissions under one country. The award for most submissions related to women goes to bothSpookyaki (submissions) (7 biographies about women) andvigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions) (21 related articles). And for the second year,simongraham (submissions) wins for the most reviews, having submitted 21!
Among the participants' contributions were 2 FAs, 5 FLs, 124 GAs, and an uncounted number of DYKs, ITNs, and reviews of every kind! Regardless of your level of participation, every contestant can be proud to have contributed towards a major step in countering thesystemic bias on Wikipedia. Every year, millions of readers and editors around the globe use Wikipedia to educate themselves and communicate with others about parts of the world that often receive less attention than they deserve. Thank you for participating with us in the contest and contributing to this effort. The DCWC will return next year, and we look forward to seeing you contribute again! However, before that...
We need your feedback! Join the conversation onthe talk page to discuss your reflections on the contest (even if you didn't participate!) and help us make it better.
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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.
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To optimize how user data is stored in our databases, the saved preferences of users who haven't logged in for over five years and have fewer than 100 edits will be cleared. When those users return, default settings will apply.[109]
View all 20 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, there was a broken link from the GlobalContributions interface message to the XTools GlobalContributions page which has now been fixed.[110]
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The work to reroute all traffic to API endpoints under therest.php route through a common API gateway is now complete. If any issues are observed, please file a phabricator ticket to theService Ops team board.
Edits to Wikidata references or qualifiers will now be shown in RecentChanges and Watchlist entries on other wikis less often, reducing unnecessary notifications. This will reduce the overall quantity of 'noisy' entries. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged.[111]
View all 20 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.
Thewatchlist expiry feature allows editors to watch pages for a limited period of time. After that period, the page is automatically removed from your watchlist. Starting this week, you can set a preference for the default period of time to watch pages. Thepreferences also allow you to set different default watch periods for editing existing pages, pages you create, and when using rollback.[4].jpg)
Thanks; I'll just make my own dataset. I use Deep Java Library for sentiment analysis which uses a DistilBERT model. I am curious if it can figure out the difference between a neutral description of negative events vs a POV description of neutral events. One time I tried it with a set of newspaper headlines and it was pretty interesting. People think the problem is that the WMF simply does not understand the community because they are not a part of it, but Trizek has 70k edits on fr.wiki since 2009.Polygnotus (talk)16:36, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,314 round points, mostly from articles about athletes and politicians, including 20good articles and 48did you know articles
Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1,197 round points, mostly from military history articles, including 9featured topic articles, twofeatured articles, and four good articles
Sammi Brie (submissions) with 1,055 round points, mostly from television station articles, including 27 good articles and 9good topic articles
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period.Message delivered byChristieBot, on behalf ofGalStar --GalStar (talk)03:43, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You are invited to join the discussion atWikipedia:Edit filter noticeboard § Edit filters related to logging and blocking AI edits. –Novem Linguae(talk)05:34, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
passed; congratulations! Seethe review page for more information. If the article iseligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you cannominate it within the next seven days.Message delivered byChristieBot, on behalf ofGalStar --GalStar (talk)18:03, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions) – 229 points, back with a number of articles on abortion in various African countries.
PizzaKing13 (submissions) – 200 points, with five GAs on articles relating to Salvadoran politics, history, andgriddle cakes.
BeanieFan11 (submissions) – 168 points from a few GAs, a few DYKs, and a few ITNs on athletes from a variety of countries.
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Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used byTemplateStyles was updated. For example:
Arconning (submissions) with 1,090 round points, mainly from articles about athletes and politicians, including afeatured article onPhilippines at the 1924 Summer Olympics, 9good articles, 28did you know articles, and a wide assortment of featured and good article reviews
AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) with 854 round points, mostly from a high-scoring featured article on the Indian leaderRani of Jhansi and two good articles, in addition to 13 featured and good article reviews
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Done (restored) I did one and then figured I needed to take a closer look, but looks like you got to it~Sohom (talk)14:34, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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simongraham (submissions) comes in second with 763 points, largely from a slew of good articles aboutjumping spiders. And returning to the podium for the second year in a row,
View all 20 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, there was a broken link from the GlobalContributions interface message to the XTools GlobalContributions page which has now been fixed.[110]
